Subject: Music Book Title: From Paris to Peoria
From Paris to Peoria
How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland
Lott, R. Allen
Professor of Music History, School of Church Music, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Print publication date: 2003
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514883-1
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148831.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514883-1
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148831.001.0001
Abstract:
The American tours of five visiting virtuoso pianists — Leopold de Meyer (1845-7), Henri Herz (1846-50), Sigismund Thalberg (1856-8), Anton Rubinstein (1872-3), and Hans von Bülow (1875-6) — are examined in this book in regard to their management, itinerary, repertoire, performance style, and reception. The transformation of audiences from boisterous to reverent, the gradual acceptance of the piano recital, the establishment of a canon of masterworks for the piano, and the evolution of concert-giving into a highly organized commercial enterprise are documented. Appendices include the itineraries of these five pianists, totaling almost one thousand concerts in more than one hundred cities, and the repertoire of Rubinstein and Bülow.
Keywords: Leopold de Meyer, Henri Herz, Sigismund Thalberg, Anton Rubinstein, Hans von Bülow, pianists, piano recitals, audiences, concert life
Keywords: Leopold de Meyer, Henri Herz, Sigismund Thalberg, Anton Rubinstein, Hans von Bülow, pianists, piano recitals, audiences, concert life
Table of Contents
Preface
PRELUDE
CHAPTER 1. The Lion Stalks America
CHAPTER 2. De Meyer in the South and Midwest
CHAPTER 3. The Lion Tamed
CHAPTER 4. A Refined Parisian Pianist
CHAPTER 5. With Sivori and Knoop
CHAPTER 6. French Pianos, Italian Opera, and California Gold
INTERLUDE I
CHAPTER 7. A Rival or Liszt
CHAPTER 8. At the Matinées
CHAPTER 9. Henry Vieuxtemps and a Troubled Season
INTERLUDE II
CHAPTER 10. “ The Shaggy Maestro”
CHAPTER 11. Wieniawski
CHAPTER 12. Rubinstein's “Magnificent Faultiness”
CHAPTER 13. Joint Venture with Theodore Thomas
CHAPTER 14. Escape to the New World
CHAPTER 15. “Unfortunately ... He Also lalks”
CHAPTER 16. The Midwest and Back
POSTLUDE
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148831.001.0001
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